More than 20 teams of high school students with a passion for designing, building and racing electric vehicles are scheduled to hit the track at the annual Waterloo EV Challenge on Saturday.
Students from across Ontario will compete in two endurance races in single-seat electric vehicles they designed and built on a temporary street racing course on the East Campus. Each car starts with the same size and type of battery, and the vehicle that travels furthest in the time available is the winner.
The EV Challenge - now in its 12th year and the only event of its kind in Canada - allows students to gain practical engineering knowledge and fabrication skills as they collaborate to design and manufacture their cars.
They also develop project management and teamwork skills by working on an open-ended engineering challenge as members of an interdisciplinary team.
A competitor races during a previous edition of the Waterloo EV Challenge, which is set to run again on campus Saturday.